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The event that held the news hostage

The event that held the news hostage

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The War on Rats

In 1900, the first case of bubonic plague to ever be confirmed in North America was diagnosed in San Francisco. Scientists did not understand how the disease was transmitted but had long theorized that rats played a role.
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